Revision as of 13:57, 14 March 2011

Services Manager, seen in Figure 7.4a, provides an easy-to-use graphical utility for managing some KDE and PC-BSD services. The listed services can be enabled/disabled at system startup and their current status can be toggled to stopped or running. To access this utility, go to Application Launcher -> System Settings -> Services Manager. You will be prompted to input the administrative password.

Figure 7.4a: Managing Services Using Services Manager

The following services can be managed with this GUI:

ACPI notebook module: this service should be enabled on laptops and can be disabled on PCs.

Avahi: KDE uses this service to discover printers and folders that are shared on the local network.

cpufreq: a control framework installed with PC-BSD to adjust CPU speed and voltage on the fly. This can save battery power because the lower the clock speed, the less power the CPU consumes. It is recommended for laptop users. You can learn more about this framework by reading man cpufreq.